swfdec always the flash player

Iyeru · 02-18-2009, 02:31 PM

When I choose Shockwave Flash (In iceweasel) swfdec still is prominent. is there any way to remove swfdec and use flashplugin-nonfree?

The sound in swfdec is all distorted it seems, like when I roll over the "Toons" button on homestarrunner.com, it comes out all garbled.

This is also my first time using Debian itself, since I've been using Ubuntu all the while.

pljvaldez · 02-18-2009, 03:19 PM

sudo aptitude purge swfdec then you'll have to install flashplugin-nonfree from sid or an external repository until it gets into backports.

http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer#h...c6a70b321813d4

If you're only using a mozilla based browser, you can use flashplayer-mozilla from debian multimedia.

Iyeru · 02-18-2009, 03:23 PM

So how do I edit etc/apt/preferences to allow it? And do I just add http://packages.debian.org/sid/flashplugin-nonfree to the sources list? Or do I have to use another URL?

pljvaldez · 02-18-2009, 03:33 PM

You have to do something called apt-pinning. Basically you put the sid repositories into /etc/apt/sources.list and then when you install, you simply invoke aptitude install -t unstable flashplugin-nonfree. Here's a link to some Debian apt-pinning howto's:

http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...ackage.en.html

Personally, I've never done apt-pinning and I've heard horror stories of people running mixed systems. So I just used the flashplayer-mozilla package from debian multimedia. You do a similar thing though, add debian multimedia to your sources.list and then just install the package.